Reality — according to Philip K Dick

So, what is reality? Philip k Dick — a writer whose work I have been enjoying for years without knowing his name. I enjoyed witching total recall, minority report, paycheck to name a few of the movies based on good novels. I heard his name for the first time from a client and it was only then that I liked him up and realized his life had been as surreal as his writing. I have just watched the man from the high castle on Amazon and loved it.

I used to have a gut-wrenching feeling that I am not doing what I am supposed to me and in fact, I am not even who I think I am. I belong to some other place and I am stuck here, wasting my time. Like most people, I suppressed those feelings, kept them locked up tight in my chest till they stop bothering me. I never tried to do anything else with them, like accepting them, explore them and come to terms with those feelings. Philip K Dick, on the other hand, decided to be a lot more creative and constructive with those feelings.

Philip has written books upon books that don’t accept our reality and suggest events, places, and people that are living those feelings. It can be pre-cogs in the Minority report who can see a murder before it happens, the memory implants in Total Recall, the multiverse and people traveling through them in the Man in high castle, and so on.

It was not only in his writing, his experience in real life were no less exciting. He believed to have encountered a God-like presence and believed that the spirit of Elijah had visited him and that he was Elijah.